* Antidepressants OK if breastfeeding?
Enh.
Speedballs would be much, much better.
High grade Bolivian flake for Mom,
heavy on the Black Tar heroin for overly optimistic lip-lockers. This is America, fer Chrissakes. Start ’em off right..

* Babies are smarter than you think

Not for generations in my family, obviously..
Not enough heroin, man, not enough heroin..

A Queens law student held in an Egyptian jail for the past four months as an accused Israeli spy will be released under a prisoner exchange agreed to yesterday between Israeli and Egyptian officials.

“I’m very happy and elated,” said Daniel Grapel, whose son Ilan, 27, was picked up by Egyptian security forces in June and charged with gathering intelligence on the revolution that swept Hosni Mubarek from power.

Israel will free 25 Egyptian detainees, described as law breakers or minors — not terrorists — in exchange for Grapel, a dual American-Israeli citizen, according to a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Picture] SOLDIERING ON: Ilan Grapel, an Emory law student who was accused of spying, poses in his Israeli paratrooper’s uniform.

No “guarantee” until release.

The deal, which still must be approved by the rest of Israel’s security cabinet, comes on the heels of the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held by Hamas for five years in captivity, in exchange for 1,027 terrorists and sympathizers.

Grapel was interning with a refugee resettlement organization when he was detained and was further accused of inciting protests against the Egyptian military.

Friends and family scoffed at the charges, pointing out that he posted pictures of himself in his Israel Defense Forces uniform in Tahrir Square on Facebook — something a covert operative wouldn’t likely do.

Still, his family remains cautious about his impending freedom.

“We have to wait until he actually crosses the line, so to speak, and until that there is no 100 percent guarantee,” the elder Grapel, 60, warned outside the family’s Oakland Gardens, Queens, home.

They only visited him once and had occasional phone calls since his detention.

“Physically he is okay,” Grapel’s father said. “But, mentally its hard to say over the phone.”

Throughout Grapel’s ordeal he was backed by Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Queens).

“From the beginning, I was assured by the highest levels in Israel that in no way did Ilan have anything to do with espionage, the Mossad or any other type of spy agency,” Ackerman said. “Ilan is a wonderful young man who loves Egypt and the Egyptian culture.”

Grapel had interned for Ackerman in his Bayside office in the summer of 2002.

He is currently a student at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta and served as a paratrooper in the IDF.

That photo is spectacular, btw. It’s like you can see a weird light that only the truly deranged emanate. It looks like the air around her is virtually crackling with the special kind of crzay energy and all the press see it but are conciously avoiding aknowledgement that there a fucking lunatic they’re all focused on.

I caught the vid of that. Of course the more they crackdown the more fuel they toss on the fire. We’ve had to unplug from the scene here in Tucson a little, I’m trying to get ready to head to SC for my buddy’s memorial and I’ve got to work if I want to feed mi changito. But from what I’ve heard while the occupation is still growing, the tickets keep comming and the court hearings have started (with stellar representation,IMHO):

Day 10, approx 259 citations to Occupiers at Armory Park and Pancho Villa Park; 50 tents at Armory with 100 occupiers; $259,000 in collective maximum penalties amassed by American citizens exercising their constitutional rights to assemble peacefully and free speech. Keep the faith, stay strong in the struggle… Way to go, Tucson!

MF Global Holdings Ltd. (MF), the futures broker that had its credit rating cut yesterday to the lowest investment grade, reported its largest-ever quarterly loss, sending shares down the most since June 2008.

Excluding costs from restructuring, deferring tax asset valuations and retiring debt, the loss was 9 cents a share, missing the 5-cent average profit estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

Oh c’mon, GS Bloomburghers in Wonderland.
You were all high on the mushroom tea to begin with..
Who actually bought Corzine could make a nickel on his own?
It’s gotten to the point where there are global day trading ARMIES out there contrarily clued in enough to quickly (financial term now) straddle whatever GS and their circle are selling…

Back to the 70% LOSS Since August Guy –
Almost 40% Today!

Chief Executive Officer Jon Corzine, 64, who helped run Goldman Sachs Group Inc. from 1994 to 1999 and was governor of New Jersey and an ex-U.S. senator, is attempting to turn MF Global into a medium-sized investment bank. He’s failing 😆 to convince investors that he can transform the broker into a Wall Street contender, as it has dropped 70 percent since Aug. 1, compared with a 16 percent decline in an index of 11 securities broker-dealers.

“MF’s results are severely below expectations,” 😆
Ed Ditmire, an analyst with Macquarie Group Ltd. in New York, wrote in a note to clients. “It’s very likely that MF expectations need to be recalibrated lower over the near-term.” 😆 Ditmire had expected it to earn 3 cents a share on an adjusted basis.

MF Global Plunge

MF Global plunged 37.5 percent to $2.22 at 10:36 a.m. in New York trading. That’s the largest drop since June 2008 and is down from $9.21 on Jan. 10.

“Without question the quarterly market conditions were as difficult 😆 as I have experienced in my 30 years” in finance, Corzine said on a conference call with analysts, excluding the 2008 credit crisis when he was governor of New Jersey.

The company earns money by charging interest on client funds it holds that back futures trades. Corzine said the Federal Reserve target interest rate, which has been between zero and 0.25 percent since late 2008, makes the futures brokerage business challenging.

“We’re vigorously and actively reviewing options that will allow us to get to scale” in the futures brokerage business, he said. Corzine didn’t answer when an analyst asked on the conference call about how competing futures brokers appeared in terms of business combinations.

Bottom line is this: without a HUGE surge of money injected into Wall Street’s Casino, Corzine’s services as a croupier are done. Hell, The brokerage commish hustle in general is done. .. What I’d be interested to know in detail is the full extent of their proprietorially held off-books derivatives.
(Of course Corzine would, too, I guess 😆 )
(Fucker lost 70% – 70! – 70% year-to-date. 😆 )

Aw hell, that’s why they continue to reincarnate these hustles
anyways.
Their brokerage operations, while giving them vehicle to criminally transport politically aquired Sheepfunds to commission slaughterhouse , more importantly, Potemkin, it buys them leverage and time along the way to play their market impressario games. Which kinda sucks now, the market being broke’d, the EU and Asia bein pretty much de-impressario’d and all now….

So it should be fun to see how many of these heretofore reportedly “smartest guys in the room” like Corzine are sitting on razors edge and where and why…. Seems to me, however you slice it, whether they have the fix in here, assume they do, say, with a certain peg to the Fed, well, whatever assumptions they built into previously constructed positions simply aren’t holding in Europe and Asia. Not in Athens. Not in Brussels. They’re Riot-in-Rome not. They can’t. And who knows why? Too much mushroom tea in the Black Forest is as good a’congealied, mix metaphored, deleveraged explanation as any…

Anyways, you know something’s up when every Hi-Fi- explodiing head in the West forms chorus of Reductio ad Hitlerum, going all Argumentum ad Nazium towards Merkel now…

always luv your analysis booHHMan,but… ‘shroom tea taking the blame for the insanity of banksters is offensive to a mycophile, like myself…:evil:

Psychedelics are a sacred panacea of peace and enlightenment. that are all good 😎

Deluded psychedelized banksters consuming themselves after exhausting their prey is as likely as getting high on ‘shrooms and sacrificing other people at the apex of stone pyramid (or in a Beverly Hills mansion) 😈

Oh that is so wrong! 😆 😉Deluded psychedelized banksters consuming themselves after exhausting their prey is as likely as getting high on ‘shrooms and sacrificing other people at the apex of stone pyramid (or in a Beverly Hills mansion) 😈

And we’d like to Welcome to Aztec Capital Management –
Eric and Lyle Menenedez! Hit it , Phil Specter!

Gosh Charlie just gets so much negativity. People forget, he never killed anyone. And what’s a swastika between friends? He couldn’t control his women. Not a lifetime in jail offense. Who could have seen it coming?

And it boils down,to, hmm
JP Morgan MANSON Stanley., that’s new, a contender.
I see a consortium of Citi and GS now underwrite the Mengele Health Care Deluxe offering, a possibility, a possibility – while the VATICAN brochure, yeh they’re in on the act now – oddly enough, their brochure doesn’t feature smiling retirees on a beach somewhere, no , no- hmm, they have MY GOD!! ???
MEN HAPPILY SPANKING BOY BUM??!!

yeah I think given the NAMBLA discount I get because of being a Recovering Catholic indentureship/retirement in some Vatican Manse might be affordable.and there is nothing like the smell of dead altar boy in the morning

FWIW he is coming in for a lot of ridicule on his visit…. esp slamming the local media by locking them out, running late, then later (over 2 hours late for “lunch”), then slinking in the back door. Photogs banned at the high ticket fundraise in LA but invited along for the slog to a waffles and chicken place.

Bet the people in waffle land don’t know he APOLOGISED up front to the high ticket buyers IF HE SMELLED OF CHICKEN. No really he did.

He just should have apologised for going to chicken alley and been done with it.

One of the greatest miracles performed by his Imperial “post-racial”-ness (Hobama in the HIGEST!!!) is that He’s (the deliverer of America!!!) made “step and fetchit ” tres chic again At least a pisss poor imitation thereof.

When He ( child of hawaii and the indonesia) decides to go “black,” attempts to signify, shrilly tries to “preach” and starts dropping His “g’s” i can’t decide whether I want to through a shoe at the tv or if I want to puke. Beyond the truly frightening implications of his insulting impersonations, they suck. My kocksucking prep-year roommate from the hell known as boarding school came from a kocksucking Mayflower family , he had a stick so far up his I’m not sure he ever shat, but he still did a better amos and andy than Him

Fuking H.”Uncle Ruckus” Cain is less of an bad joke..
I’m just so tired of Him (/sigh)

He has so many problems it is not even funny. OH IF ONLY the missing father had been white. And he had been left with a certifiable black chicken eating mother who was on Food Stamps. And a truly ne’er do well Grannie.

I think that would have suited him so much better. And IF ONLY the second father, oh if only he too had been a white oil co executive and not the cheap local dressing those companies put on salary..

IF ONLY.

It seems to me in his confusion he finds reasons to hate everyone but rich white men. he really is pathetic…

AP correspondent Warren Levinson reports eight present and former police officers are said to be under arrest.
Map of police gun deaths

NEW YORK (AP) — Five New York Police Department officers smuggled firearms and slot machines they thought were stolen and some even used bolt cutters to pilfer hundreds of boxes of cigarettes from tractor-trailers as part of a 12-person theft ring that was under federal surveillance the entire time, authorities said Tuesday.

Three retired NYPD officers and a New Jersey correction officer are among the other defendants named in a federal criminal complaint alleging an undercover agent paid them more than $100,000 to moonlight as gun runners while under FBI surveillance. Three current officers also participated in a brazen theft of cigarettes they were told were worth $500,000, the complaint says.

Mayor Michael Bl 😯 <b>berg has long targeted illegal smuggling of guns into the city 😳 and said that, if the accusations are true, the officials engaged in “a disgraceful and deplorable betrayal of the public trust.” 😆

The men were eager and willing to smuggle the weapons and commit other crimes “so long as the price was right,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a news conference announcing the arrests.

Apprently the cops have set up what one reporter called “stone cold” line at the square (no way in at all it seems)… but reporters are saying no cops at the little park that was rousted as well, Snow Park.

I had heard about the protests on the news, and hadn’t paid too much attention. But as I drove by the crowd, a sign held by one of the protesters caught my eye:

“PhD ≠ job.”

That’s a shorthand way of saying what has become all too familiar to us scientists: lengthy training and academic credentials no longer suffice to launch a career in science.

This message is a new tone in the Occupy movement’s chord.

Brandie Cross held the sign. She is in the 5th year of a PhD program in biochemistry at The Johns Hopkins University. Her specialty is breast cancer, a traditionally well-funded specialty. But she’s sure her job prospects are dim. “I’d like to start my own biotech company. I have tons of inventions, and I want to be funded by NIH. But there’s no money.”

I also spoke with Dr. Troy Rubin, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins who also showed up at the protest, and I heard a different angle; Rubin was more worried about the long-term future of America. I asked him why he was participating and he said, “We live in a society where wisdom is less appreciated than money. An economically driven society is fundamentally unsustainable.”

The Occupy protestors view corporate greed and the disproportionate power of the wealthiest 1% of Americans as the causes of a wide range of problems in America. Since September, protests have sprung up in more than one hundred cities around the country. Baltimore is a small city with many institutions of research and higher learning, so perhaps it makes sense that Baltimore’s version of the Occupy movement would involve scientists.

So.

At Thursday's debate, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren defended their Medicare for All plan. They faced criticism from several rivals, including Senator Amy Klobuchar, who described it as a "bad idea," and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who claimed the bill shows Sanders and Warren do not "trust the American people."

At the third presidential primary debate in Houston, Texas, senator and 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Warren also spoke about her stance on U.S. trade policy and how "our trade policy in America has been broken for decades."

After being questioned about the crisis in Venezuela, Senator Bernie Sanders defended his vision of democratic socialism. "I agree with what goes on in Canada and in Scandinavia: guaranteeing healthcare to all people as a human right. I believe that the United States should not be the only major country on Earth not to provide paid family and medical le […]

Debate moderator Jorge Ramos of Univision grilled former Vice President Joe Biden over the Obama administration's deportation record. Biden refused to answer whether he did anything to prevent Obama from deporting a record 3 million people.

A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Friday demanded internal emails, detailed financial information and other company records from top executives of Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc, Apple Inc, and Alphabet Inc's Google, widening the antitrust probe of Big Tech.

U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Friday asked a government watchdog to look into the Trump administration's decision to launch an antitrust probe into four automakers cooperating with California on tighter greenhouse gas emissions limits that Trump is trying to eliminate.

A lawyer for former FBI official Andrew McCabe pressed U.S. prosecutors on Friday to drop their politically sensitive case against him, citing reports that suggest they may be having trouble securing criminal charges.

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from Howl

I'm with you in Rockland
where we wake up electrified out of the coma
by our own souls' airplanes roaring over the
roof they've come to drop angelic bombs the
hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse
O skinny legions run outside O starry
spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is
here O victory forget your underwear we're free
I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-
journey on the highway across America in tears
to the door of my cottage in the Western night

October 7 1955

"a remarkable collection of angelson one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure

Democrats…

Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.